Some day there will be digital currencies which work in a manner similar to the way Bitcoin wants to work which are actually safe and reasonably sensible to use. How long? Hard to say, might be as few as 5-10 years, might be as long as 50.

Greoge RR -- Yes, get to work and finish A Song of Ice and Fire, you lazy bastard.

Didn't George RR Martin say he was still running WordStar is because it kept him from getting distracted? I would like to see his ending, but at this point I will take whatever HBO shows as cannon. I really don't have any faith in him finishing the series.

I think Bitcoin needs to just go away. As I am sure someone will point out, that is just my stupid opinion but it is a scammy bubble and it will end up like all scammy bubbles. The world's first digital decentralized currency - certainly was certainly an ambitious experiment. Maybe it could have stoked some more fires of invention / knowledge, but what 10 years later? Now it is just people wasting an absurd amount of energy (and good hardware! ) on Internet Funbucks.